For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too ...

Anyone who has ever stepped foot in Paris or even passingly encountered French art has likely seen ... of the same generation ...

René Lalique was a seminal French glass designer known for his Art Nouveau and Art Deco perfume bottles ... glass ornamental objects beyond the bourgeois class. Born on April 6, 1860 in Ay, France, he ...

In Disney’s adaptation of Jilly Cooper ’s Rivals, the romance novelist Lizzie Vereker sits at her typewriter, and imagines a ...

As the French Empire was further colonising ... the PRB became highly influential, with other artists joining the movement. By the 1860s, a second phase of the movement contributed to bringing ...

31.5 x 31.5 cm. (12.4 x 12.4 in.) ...

It has trickled down through history thirdhand, first appearing in a footnote to a study of Flaubert by the scholar René ...

Justin Jacobs, author and expert in modern Chinese history, discusses loot, antiquity, and imperialism in his new book.

George Loomis on “Macbeth” at the Parma Festival Verdi.

“In the war in the Crimea, the British used chloroform almost universally in their operations; the French also exhibited ... of anesthetic death in the 1860s was not understood, we now know ...

In the 1850s and 1860s, these small English Bulldogs were ... became a sought-after companion across all social strata of French society - including among everyday traders and laborers, artists, and ...

This is the first sustained study of a Dissenting family - the Aikins - from the 1740s to the 1860s. Essays by literary critics, historians of religion and science, and geographers explore and ...